Mail box support



Sept. 15, 1936. w Q C'HAUNCEY Q 2,054,281

MAIL BOX SUPPORT Filed Nov. 22, 1935 INVENTOR.

W 6. Chauncey ATTORNEYS.

Patented Sept. 15, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

My invention relates to supports for receptacles placed alongside the road.

The object of my invention is to provide a support for a receptacle by means of which the receptacle may be maintained in easy access to one making delivery from a vehicle driven along the road and turned away from such receiving position and maintained in such position.

The specific receptacle to be supported by my support is a mail box upon rural mail routes, al-

though receptacles ,for other objects may be mounted upon my receptacle support.

The earthen shoulders upon concrete roads, as Well as those upon roads having gravel or sandclay surfaces, frequently need renewing or working over.

It is customary to place mail boxes along such roads so close to the travelled surface, that one in a vehicle can reach them easily without descending from the vehicle. When these shoulders are then to be worked, especially if the working is by machine, it is necsessary for the road workers to remove the posts and to replace them when the repairs to that portion of the shoulder are completed.

This is an unnecessary expense to the public, and the boxes or posts supporting them are frequently injured by this handling.

My invention avoids this expense, and damage by setting the supporting posts outside the shoulders, and supporting the mail box upon an arm which holds it in easy reach of the mail carrier.

In the accompanying drawing I have indicated, somewhat diagrammatically, one manner of carrying out the present invention, it being understood that the drawing is intended by way of illustration only, and not by Way of limitation.

In the drawing;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention,

and

Figure 2 is a top plan view, showing three possible positions of the supporting arm.

As shown in Figure 1 the invention comprises a post I, designed to be set vertically at the side 5 of the road, and outside the earthen shoulders which need to be worked.

Upon the top of this post, and pivotally secured by pin 9 is arm 2 whose outer end carries mail box 3 or other receptacle. This arm has upon its un- 50 der side for a purpose to be later disclosed, a metallic projection l0.

Arcuate member 4 is securely attached to the top of the post, shown as attached upon the top thereof, but other device for securing it may be used, and. its upper surface is held in horizontal position by brace 6, secured to the post at I and 5 to the arcuate member at 8.

Notches 5 upon the. upper edge of the arcuate member are designed and adapted to receive the metallic projection l 0 whereby the arm is held in any desired position. 10

The normal position of arm 2 is as shown in Figure 1, where the arm holds the mail box in position along the travelled portion of the roadway, so the mail carrier can reach it from his vehicle. 15

When the road men desire to work the shoulders, the arm is turned to another position, usually entirely off the shoulders, and held there by the projection dropping into the notches.

The weight of the arm is usually sufficient to 20 hold it in desired position, but means for securing it there may also be provided.

Pin 9 is shown in the drawing as a lag bolt, but other forms of pivot may be used.

The drawing shows the post and arm as of Wood, 25 but of course other materials may be used, such as concrete for the post, and metal for the arm, arcuate member and its brace.

While I have illustrated and described my invention with some degree of particularity, I re- 30 alize that in practice various alterations therein may be made. I therefore reserve the right and privilege of changing the form of details of construction or otherwise altering the arrangement of the correlated parts without departing from 35 the spirit or the scope of the appended claim.

I claim;

A roadside mail box support, consisting of a post adapted to be set in the ground at a suitable distance from the roadway, a metallic band ar- 40 ranged in a transversely curved are supported at one side by the post and at the opposite side by a brace secured at its lower end to the side of the post, the upper edge of said band having notches therein and being in the horizontal plane of the top of the post, an arm pivoted at one end upon the top of the post, having a metallic projection positioned upon its lower side to engage said notches and adapted to carry a mail box at its free end.

WILLIAM C. CHAUNCEY. 

